"Autism Causes Vaccines"
On my wishlist
https://bookshop.org/a/109411/9781621065388
#CDC #RFK #Science #Books #oligarchy #plutocracy #broligarchy #kakistocracy #corruption #patrimonialism #HalfHeartedFanatic
#patrimonialism
A way to understand Trump: #Patrimonialism, like #Authoritarianism, but without competence or organization.
A way to understand Trump: #Patrimonialism, like #Authoritarianism, but without competence or organization.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
One Word Describes Trump
Why Trump Won’t ‘Produce a Scalp’ After the Signal Debacle https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-hegseth-waltz-signal/682220/?utm_source=feed #AboveTheLaw #uspoli #fascism #Patrimonialism #authoritarianism #trump #SignalGate #ClassifiedInformation #ButHerEmails
One Word Describes Trump, Patrimonialism
“He can’t tell the difference between his own personal interest and the national interest, if he even understands what the national interest is,” John Bolton.
“If you’re his friend, he’s your friend. If you’re not his friend, he’s not your friend.” This official chose to be Trump’s friend. Otherwise, he said, his job would be nearly impossible for the next four years.
#Patrimonialism is inherently #incompetent and #corrupt!
One Word Describes Trump, Patrimonialism
“He can’t tell the difference between his own personal interest and the national interest, if he even understands what the national interest is,” John Bolton.
“If you’re his friend, he’s your friend. If you’re not his friend, he’s not your friend.” This official chose to be Trump’s friend. Otherwise, he said, his job would be nearly impossible for the next four years.
#Patrimonialism is inherently #incompetent and #corrupt!
When you think there must be a better word to describe #Trump’s ruling style but can’t quite put your finger on it…#Patrimonialism.
Ok, we're at #Weber's concept of #patrimonialism, we don't need to go to #Arendt's #totalitarianism (yet) to analyse the #UZA. That's good, ain't it?
"In its governmental guise, patrimonialism is distinguished by running the state as if it were the leader’s personal property or family business. It can be found in many countries, but its main contemporary exponent—at least until January 20, 2025—has been Vladimir Putin."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/corruption-trump-administration/681794/
#USpol
#ElonMusk in contempt of #Congress?
Ranking Member of the influential #House #WaysAndMeansCommittee, Congressman #JohnLarson from #Connecticut blasts #Musk for not appearing in the Social Security Subcommittee's hearing regarding his 👉"plans to privatize #SocialSecurity, #Medicare, and #Medicaid."
In the👉 #Putinesque #Patrimonialism 2) #Trump is establishing, this translates into feasting on the carcass of the decimated State.👈
1)
https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/tsTFJv58
2)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/corruption-trump-administration/681794
Today, Gingrich’s campaign offers the #Democrats a playbook. If they want to undermine Trump’s support, this model suggests that they should pursue a relentless, strategic, and thematic campaign branding Trump as America’s most corrupt president. Almost every development could provide fodder for such attacks, which would connect #corruption not with generalities like the rule of law but with kitchen-table issues. Higher prices? Crony capitalism! Cuts to popular programs? Payoffs for #Trump’s fat-cat clients! Tax cuts? A greedy raid on Social Security!(🎁) https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/corruption-trump-administration/681794/?gift=cg1XdqsyWjCIPVWKLR2XUwvPjfDHyDMHCfVyiAVkIAY #DonaldTrump #Patrimonialism
"#Patrimonialism is less a form of government than a style of governing. It is not defined by institutions or rules; rather, it can infect all forms of government by replacing impersonal, formal lines of authority with personalized, informal ones. Based on individual loyalty and connections, and on rewarding friends and punishing enemies (real or perceived), it can be found not just in states but also among tribes, street gangs, and criminal organizations."
Corrupt Patrimonialism. Or how rich people screw everyone else. #Patrimonialism https://wp.me/pbRvtl-8mp
Max Weber never saw it coming:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/corruption-trump-administration/681794/
#Trump #patrimonialism #Bureaucratic rationality
@TwraSun Siehe auch #Patrimonialismus:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/corruption-trump-administration/681794/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrimonialism
Und nochmal zur Bekräftigung: das ist diesmal kein Übersetzungsfehler, wir reden hier wirklich von Billionen (engl. trillions).
"Patrimonialism is less a form of government than a style of governing. It is not defined by institutions or rules; rather, it can infect all forms of government by replacing impersonal, formal lines of authority with personalized, informal ones. Based on individual loyalty and connections, and on rewarding friends and punishing enemies (real or perceived), it can be found not just in states but also among tribes, street gangs, and criminal organizations.
In its governmental guise, patrimonialism is distinguished by running the state as if it were the leader’s personal property or family business. It can be found in many countries, but its main contemporary exponent—at least until January 20, 2025—has been Vladimir Putin. In the first portion of his rule, he ran the Russian state as a personal racket. State bureaucracies and private companies continued to operate, but the real governing principle was Stay on Vladimir Vladimirovich’s good side … or else.
Seeking to make the world safe for gangsterism, Putin used propaganda, subversion, and other forms of influence to spread the model abroad. Over time, the patrimonial model gained ground in states as diverse as Hungary, Poland, Turkey, and India. Gradually (as my colleague Anne Applebaum has documented), those states coordinated in something like a syndicate of crime families—'working out problems,' write Hanson and Kopstein in their book, 'divvying up the spoils, sometimes quarreling, but helping each other when needed. Putin in this scheme occupied the position of the capo di tutti capi, the boss of bosses.'
Until now. Move over, President Putin."
Rauch's article on Atlantic claims that Dump is no classic authoritarian due to #patrimonialism: a system where the state is run like a personal fiefdom, loyalty trumps competence & corruption isn't a flaw but the entire OS.
He's right about the chaos but misses the mark about the label. Patrimonialism at least implies a coherent structure of personal loyalty, while Dump & now Space Nazi's rule is much worse: #kleptokakistocracy with a dose of #kakokleptocracy.
#Politics #trump #resist #resistance #patrimonialism
A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how Donald Trump thinks about the world, @jon_rauch writes. Understanding this view is essential to defeating it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/corruption-trump-administration/681794/
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